Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Saturday 1st June 2013.Turner Contemporary, Margate.

I was invited to contribute a series of workshops to accompany the Curiosity show at Turner Contemporary. I had an idea of doing something with Bigfoot impressions or casts. I originally thought of making plaster casts of large wildman footprints, this slowly developed over a number of months into foam footprint printing and repeat pattern printing with adapted rollers. I used foam pipe lagging again and large scaffolding foam ( this took ages to source ! I eventually found some in an industrial estate at the end of the Central Line).

I have been asked to run two Wildman Life Drawing Classes at Turner Contemporary on the 14th/15th August - please come !

I took part in a collaborative & intensive 3 day residency called 'Progress in Work III '. Andrew Kerr of Extra Bone fame co-ordinated the event and I worked along side artists, Reena Makwana & Tim Spooner.

First Day.

The opening night was a late, I ran an informal rubber stamp class and there was beer and some music. The rubber stamp work was included in the first Progress in Work pamphlet, I photocopied over the prints with images created by the 3 artists.

Second Day.

I started to carve and print with the Yams, Sweet Potatoes and other root vegetables I collected from Deptford Market. Catfish, Dried Fish and Fresh Whelks were picked up to inspire the work.

Day Three

I started to explore repeated patterned printing through the use of adapted rollers. This was the first time i had attempted this, I cut out sweet potato rollers using a small piece of plastic piping then craved abstract and figurative patterns of circles and crayfish into them.

Monday, 17 June 2013

I was asked to run an explorative printing workshop on the Sunday afternoon of the book fair and decided it would be a good opportunity to explore adapted rollers - We used pipe foam lagging instead of a root vegetables (see deptford residency). Here are the results . . . .

Wednesday, 5 June 2013

Last weekend I visited Bristol and went with my Sister's family to the annual Festival of Nature on the harbour side. We came across a great tent and found lots of people painting animal pictures for a wildlife reserve. My nephew painted a Badger, my Niece a Swan and I painted a White Clawed Crayfish. It was for the Bristol Water/Kumiko Community Arts art project, over 130 paintings were created and will be on show at Chew Valley Lake in August. www.kumikocommunityarts.org